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Stacy Madeleine Schiff (born October 26, 1961) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American nonfiction author and guest columnist for ''The New York Times''. ==Biography== Schiff, born in Adams, Massachusetts, is a graduate of Phillips Academy (Andover) preparatory school, and earned her B.A. degree from Williams College in 1982. She was a senior editor at Simon & Schuster until 1990. Her essays and articles have appeared in ''The New Yorker'', ''The New York Times'' and ''The Times Literary Supplement''. She is a contributor to ''The New York Times Book Review''. Schiff won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography for ''Vera'', a biography of Vera Nabokov, wife and muse of Vladimir Nabokov. She was also a finalist for the 1995 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography for ''Saint-Exupéry: A Biography'' of Antoine de Saint Exupéry.〔 Schiff's ''A Great Improvisation: Franklin, France, and the Birth of America'' (2005) won a number of awards and was published in the U.K. under the title ''Dr. Franklin Goes to France.'' Her biography ''Cleopatra: A Life'' was published in 2010. A guest columnist at ''The New York Times'', Schiff resides in New York City. She is a trustee of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Schiff's latest book is ''The Witches: Salem, 1692,'' about the Salem witch trials. Writing in the ''New York Times Book Review'', Jane Kamensky found it to be “curiously flat,” offering “banalities” and a “tenuous grip on the period.” Kamensky concluded, “For all her talents in sketching the who, what, where and when of the Salem trials, () vexed question of why is one that Schiff simply cannot manage.” 〔http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/01/books/review/the-witches-salem-1692-by-stacy-schiff.html〕 Writing in ''The Wall Street Journal'', Felipe Fernández-Armesto found that Schiff offered "a trial narrative unsurpassed for detail and impressive for her mastery of the fragmentary and frustrating sources." He found the overall result, however, to be "unsatisfying" because "she uncovers no new clues to understanding" the context of the trials.〔http://www.wsj.com/articles/american-witchesand-their-hunters-1445618862?alg=y〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Stacy Schiff」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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